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'Playing With the Enemy' springs from deathbed revelation
I was standing in the middle of a bookstore during an author signing,
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"It was a story we didn't know," explained Gary W. Moore, author of "Playing
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Questions about his father's past welled up inside the son as he was
returning from taking his dad for a follow-up heart test at the hospital on
May 13, 1983, recalled Gary Moore.
"So that night I pressed him about details of his life."
The story unfolded almost in chapters.
First there was the time he spent as a prospect in the Dodgers farm system,
a career interrupted by Pearl Harbor and World War II. Those seasons were
followed by years spent playing baseball for a Navy traveling team to
entertain troops in the Azores and North Africa.
The traveling team was brought back to the United States toward the end of
the war. Team members were given a special top-secret mission guarding
German prisoners of war captured from a submarine. But baseball still was a
passion for players who were expecting to make it to the major leagues once
the war was over. So Moore convinced his commander to allow him to teach the
enemy prisoners how to play baseball, so he and his teammates would have an
opponent to compete against.
It was in one of those games that Moore suffered a career-ending injury, and
then was given a Purple Heart for his "war" wound.
Father and son spent hours talking about how the elder Moore had written the
government several times asking that they take back the medal, but
government officials refused. "He felt he wasn't in the same category as
others who had been wounded in the war," his son explained.
The son learned that his dad had suffered through depression over losing his
dream of playing professional baseball -- the 1949 Pirate tryout only proved
he no longer could play -- and how he had turned first to drinking and then
to silence in order to endure the disappointment.
"I don't know if he enjoyed it (the talk). It brought back a lot of
embarrassment and pain," recalled Moore. "But after it was all said and
done, I think he was relieved he told the story.
"I came home, woke my wife up and told her 'You've got to hear this. It's
amazing.' "
The next day, Moore's father died.
Still, the son didn't write about dad for more than two decades.
"For years, I thought if my dad didn't want to tell the story, I didn't have
the right to," explained the author, who operates a water equipment company
in suburban Chicago. "Then one day my mother told me that 'just because your
Dad didn't enjoy talking about himself doesn't mean he didn't enjoy it when
others did.' And she encouraged me to write the story."
Moore interviewed dozens of people to verify the facts his father had told
him the night before his passing. What resulted from the author's research
was "Playing With the Enemy" ($29.95, hardcover), a biography that was
published in 2006. Plans already are in place to make the book into a
movie. The author's son, an actor, will take on the role of his grandfather,
Moore said.
"I wrote a book about my father, and my son is playing him in a major motion
picture," said Moore. "It defies explanation. It really is a miracle and a
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Fashion Police Writers Claim E! Owes Them $1 Million Dollars in Back Pay
If the writers behind Fashion Police get their way, they may soon be able to afford those couture gowns constantly critiqued on the show.
In claims filed Wednesday with the California Division of Labor Standards Enforcement, the writers on the commentary cable show allege that E! owes them more than $1 million dollars in back wages. The writers claim that E! has broken state labor law by not compensating them for all of the regular and overtime hours they have clocked working on the show.
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The writing staff says that Fashion Police has repeatedly ignored state laws that stipulate that all hourly employees be paid their regular wage for all time worked in an eight-hour period. It is also alleged that Fashion Police has ignored rules stating that employees must be paid overtime for working more than eight hours in any one day, or working more than 40 hours in a work week.
"We love writing for Fashion Police, but the company needs to do the right thing and pay us fairly for all the hard work and time we put into it," writer Bryan Cook said in a statement posted on the official website of the Writers Guild of America, which helped the writers with their filings. "We've helped make it one of the network's top-rated shows and E! needs to start treating us like professional writers."
E! responded in a statement obtained by The Hollywood Reporter: "E! values our Fashion Police writers and we pay them fairly and in full legal compliance."
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A Little Taste of Independence
July 1, 2009 at 11:03 pm 301 comments
Hey everyone – happy 4th of July!
I know most everyone has a special Independence Day tradition. Most people spend the day with their family and friends, others go to neighborhood potlucks and barbeques, and still others go to the park to watch the fireworks burst beneath the stars. My personal tradition?
When we first moved into this house, I was so happy to discover that the neighborhood was full of kids. Boys, it turned out. We had only been settled in the house for a few months before it was July, and I discovered something else – those boys were ridiculous pyromaniacs. The entire day they shot off the loudest fireworks they possibly could, and not even stopping there. They would drop fireworks into hollowed out tennis balls, empty coke cans, even buckets of water, just to see what would happen. When I first opened my door, there was a half melted army man on our driveway. I don't even want to imagine what they did to the poor guy.
We're not little kids, and unfortunately I don't go out and play with those boys anymore. It seems as we got older it was weirder for a girl to hang around the group, and I haven't created a fort in their backyards or explored the neighborhood with them in years. I'm too scared to light off any fireworks (Roman Candle fireworks are about as intense as I can handle), and I hardly ever see them now. But every year for the 4th of July, the whole neighborhood comes out as soon as dusk falls to enjoy their show together, and I laugh with them like we've stayed friends all along.
While I wish I could claim credit for it, the idea of a flag cake was completely my father's. It was all a bit of an experiment and when I finally cut the cake open, revealing the familiar red white and blue, I was so surprised to see that it worked. Besides that, I was floored by how beautifully colored all the layers were, and how much it really resembled a flag! It might be one of the coolest cakes I've ever made!
I used a white cake flavored with coconut milk. I wrapped the cakes and left them overnight and in the morning, was disappointed because they had dried out. I made a simple syrup with lime and tried to revive the layers, but the cake was still dry and I'm not sharing the recipe. However, the cake came together well and you can use any recipe for a three layer white cake.
I wanted the cake to be completely white on the outside, keeping the richly colored layers hidden. I also didn't want to mess around with blueberries and strawberries on the top, which I think are generally pretty common around the 4th. I made my favorite cream cheese frosting and flavored it with lime zest. While the cake was nothing special, I do love this cream cheese frosting, and it's the easiest to make – no room temperature cream cheese needed!
So, want to know how it's made? :)
Bear with me, it's a bit hard to explain without pen and paper.
To make the cake, you use three layers of white cake. Using food coloring, one layer is dyed blue, one is dyed red, and the last layer is kept white. The three layers are leveled so they are all the same height. Let's say each layer is 2 inches tall.
Using a serrated knife or cake leveler, slice the red and white layers horizontally in half. So you have a blue layer (2″), two red layers (each 1″), and two white layers (each 1″). Set one white and one red layer aside, those will be the bottom two stripes of the flag.
You only want a square of blue in each slice, not an entire layer. Stack the blue layer, white layer, and red layer on top of each other. Using a serrated knife, cut a large circle through all three layers. I used a bowl as a guide. Now you have a ring of blue (2″), a ring of white (1″), a ring of red (1″), and three inner circles in each color (the blue is 2″ and the other two are both 1″). Discard the inner circle of blue and the outer rings of red and white.
To assemble the cake, frost the bottom two layers together – set the uncut white layer on a plate and spread with frosting. Top with the uncut red layer. Spread the uncut red layer with frosting, then set the blue ring on top. Use a spatula to spread a very, very thin layer of frosting around the inside edge of the blue ring. This will help keep the blue layer and the two top stripes together.
Place the white inner circle on top of the uncut red layer, inside the ring of blue. Frost, and top with the red inner circle. Frost the entire cake and voila, it's a flag cake!
Whew! Make sense? It's much less complicated than it sounds, truly. And the result is just too cool. Like I said, I'm not crazy about this cake recipe but I do like the cream cheese frosting. The best part about it is that you can use cold cream cheese – not rock hard, but straight from the fridge is fine. Here it is, plain, but the flavor combinations are endless… add zest or juice or grated ginger or extract or whatever you'd like!
Update – More help! Watch me make the cake for New Day Northwest, a morning show here in Seattle: Get Patriotic with "17 and Baking" (video)
Watch the staff of KSL 5 Television make it: Red, White, and Blue Flag Cake (video)
And finally, some readers made this cake and blogged about it. These two bloggers did a much lovelier job of explaining the cake, with photos/diagrams and everything, so if you found my description confusing, check these sites out: Delectable Deliciousness's post and A Stove with a House Around It's post.
Cream Cheese Frosting
Makes enough to frost a 4th of July Flag Cake
From The Joy of Cooking
16 oz cream cheese
10 tbsp unsalted butter, softened
4 tsp vanilla extract
4 cups powdered sugar, sifted
Beat the cream cheese, butter, and extract together until combined. Gradually beat in the powdered sugar until the desired consistency is reached.
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PS: Speaking of a taste of independence… I got my driver's license a few days ago! Whoo!
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A pretty WoW screenshot, being able to fly does give you a good choice for perspectives
It has become a truism in MMOs that behaviour in random pick up groups can be really atrocious. There will be elitist jerks urging everyone to gogogo, pulling extra packs of trash mobs themselves if they think the group isn't moving fast enough, there will be people acting like idiots purely to annoy the rest of the group, there will be insults, aggression, rage quits, intolerance towards newbies. It's like a war out there, put on your kneepads and body armour before venturing into LFG!
It's also widely held that smaller, more coherent communities tend to be nicer to each other. I'm not so sure this is always true, but guild groups certainly tend to be nicer and more successful because of being willing to work together.
And yet, while I've been running at least one heroic a day in WoW, and LFR raids every week too, I just haven't seen much of the horrible behaviour that gives PUGs such a bad name. The worst I've really seen is people leaving the group mid-instance, possibly even mid-pull (which is bad behaviour, yes), and a bit of frustration on raid/party chat which is as often countered by people telling the speaker to chill. It isn't just that I'm on a more chilled out RP server because LFG/LFR is cross server. Although the world boss groups (Sha of Anger et al) on my server have tended to be particularly chilled out and willing to welcome any warm body who is able to help, even when people are annoyed at being beaten to the pull by Alliance – which happens reasonably often because they outnumber us on the server.
So while it's not possible to change human nature, I think PUGs have become nicer in MoP than they were in Cataclysm. While this isn't great for having funny 'it came from the PUG' stories to relate in blog posts, it probably does mean that the player base in general is having more fun (where being in aggressive LFGs counts as less fun). The only factors I can put this down to are:
- People who left because they didn't like pandas were some of the really annoying folks so the game is nicer without them (I don't really see why this would be the case but you never know)
- The instances and LFR are generally easier in MoP and less dependent on every individual performing well. Easier content means that there's less stress on a group. If people just settle down, chances are they'll get through it in reasonable time.
- Less odd trash pulls which need specific tactics (Shado-Pan excepted). If you are looking up instance tactics, they tend to focus on boss fights so making these the main content in instances means there is less for new players to learn.
- The more hardcore players are still motivated to do regular LFG/ LFR for the tokens, but less gated by inexperienced/ bad players. ie. If you are a decent dps player, chances are you can pull a group through a heroic even if the other two dps get themselves locked out of fights, die in the fires, etc.
I also think Blizzard has done a good job of making the boss fights generally fun, even though the group difficulty is a bit lower. There's lots of movement, add switching, things to dodge, and all the other stuff that generally switches games up from pure tank and spank fights.
But really, random groups need easier content to make up for the fact that they won't have as much experience at working together, are less likely to communicate, and are likely to contain players of widely differing skill and experience levels. We've seen this in the GW2 dynamic events also – they're easy, and there's no group size limits, so any warm body is welcome. I am glad Blizzard have twigged this, because their group content is one of the strong points of WoW and making PUGs more fun for everyone (newbies and hardcore alike) is a huge win for the game.
Bashiok actually says as much on the official forums:
While you may go in with a ((random)) group and all learn something, that a specific mob needs to be CC'd, or a certain boss behavior to avoid a wipe, those lessons are more than likely out the window with the next group you're matched with ((…)) and most people don't want to spend every run waiting for everyone else to learn all those same lessons. That can just be a frustrating experience. So instead of trying to force a group of strangers to be so heavily coordinated (maybe even having to jump into voice chat) just to complete the first steps of progression, we reduce the complexity to a point where the random groups that are being put together can most of the time be successful without needing to be hyper-organized or educated on each pull. Instead, that organization is far more important for the organized content where random people aren't matched together: normal and Heroic raids.
Do you think the WoW community has become more pleasant in PUGs in this expansion?


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By Thaddeus M. Baklinski
CANBERRA, November 10, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – As part of its inquiry into the Marriage Amendment Bill the Australian government yesterday heard arguments for and against same-sex "marriage."
The Australian Green party is pushing for the redefinition of marriage as part of their platform in anticipation of next year's federal election.
Australian Greens Senator Sarah Hanson-Young asked Prime Minister Kevin Rudd to allow Labor MPs a free parliamentary vote on same-sex "marriage" when it comes before the House. "This is not a gay issue, it's a human rights issue," she said
"I'm calling for the prime minister to … grant his members a conscience vote so we can get a true reflection of how the Australian community is feeling," Hanson-Young told ABC TV this week, adding, "The majority of Australians think people should be able to marry who they want."
The Sydney Star Observer reports that the Bill has prompted a considerable response from citizens, with the Senate Legal and Constitutional Affairs Committee receiving more than 20,000 submissions in the past two months.
The committee reported on Monday that the submissions ran about two to one against same-sex "marriage."
"16,752 emails were received against amending the Marriage Act to include same-sex couples, while only 8,666 emails had been received for," the report stated.
The Australian Family Association's (AFA) submission reaffirmed that marriage should be reserved as a union between a man and a woman.
"We submit that marriage deliberately identifies and protects a particular type of relationship – the uniquely pro-generative male-female relationship – which carries a unique (and not inconsiderable) significance for both contemporary Australian society, and for the entire human species," the AFA stated.
The AFA is encouraging Australians to send a strong message to their elected leaders to defend traditional marriage. A petition and contact information is available on the group's website.
"Without a public 'uprising' to defend marriage," said the group, "it is conceivable that Australia could join other nations (namely Canada, Spain, Belgium and some American states) in legalising same-sex 'marriage'. We are charged therefore with the serious responsibility of working to retain the definition of marriage as a union between a man and a woman. Now, and over the next year we must garner an increasing mass of people to take a stand for marriage."
The Senate Legal and Constitutional Affairs Committee is scheduled to publish the results of its inquiry into the Marriage Amendment Bill on November 26, 2009.
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Moving/2169 Mission
How to get there
See Getting Here (2169).
Lease signed
Scan of the lease : Media : 2169_Mission_signed_lease-cleaned.pdf .
Text is as the proposed lease linked below, with a couple of very minor changes to the filled-in blanks and an addendum detailing our roof access rights. Lease term starts September 1. We are allowed use of the space for buildout as of now.
- proposed lease: https://www.noisebridge.net/images/1/16/107_NoiseBridge_lease_draft_02.pdf
- location on Google Maps
- pictures from initial visit
- electrical panel, basement, and roof 360° pictures from our second visit
- Issues&Challenges
- Budget
- Move-in Budget
- Access control on our floor is by your existing noisebridge key. All locks except for the glass front doors (which are usually unlocked) have been rekeyed to be the same as at 83c.
- Utilities
See Buildout
- Initial visit: 2009-07-10
- Group visit & inspection: 2009-07-14
Moving Checklist
If we do move into 2169, these things should be done.
before September 1st
- notify Ahuva Jolish (83C landlord) that we will be vacating as of the end of September and not going month-to-month on our 83C lease.
- Contact insurance agents. Ask for quotes of $1MM general liability insurance (or whatever lease terms want). Current insurance is MIF Insurance, agent Pauline Nagata.
- Set up utilities for new space: trash, water, electricity, internet
- Set up cancellation date for Internets at 83c.
We have the keys! Moving day!
- Move all objects from 83c to 2169.
- Readdress the machines at 2169 Mission from 192.168.3.0/24 to 172.30.0.0/24.
- Update the wiki's front page to remove references to 83c and add pointers to the new space.
- Double-check that no items are left at 83c.
- Clean up 83C to bring it back to "normal wear & tear" so we get our deposit back.
- Change the lock on 83c.
- 12ft ceilings (approx)
- 5600sf quoted
- 3500lb freight elevator available from lobby
- $3600/mo 3yr lease quoted
- available now, would like us to move in 2009-08-01 or 2009-08-15; negotiable, but there's another tenant who is willing to start 2009-10-01 so if we don't preempt we lose the space.
- family owned, we talked to the son (seems like a nice guy with his shit together), they live in SF
- three stairwells plus front fire escape
- third floor of 3, 8 skylights (currently painted over), full floor
- access stairway shared with 2nd floor (which houses a garment manufacturing operation), with security gates on each floor.
- landlords OK with our membership structure and access philosophy
- no PGE gas lines in bldg
- concrete pillars with apparently wood frame floors (floor finished in mix of wood, linoleum, and tile)
- former sewing factory, tons of electrical distribution & comes with several Jukis!
- windows on Mission and on rear
- two tiny bathrooms
- many 8ft walls separating space are easily removed as we desire
- a few small full-height rooms, we would want to build out to our spec
- roof appears to be in reasonable shape
- roof access is through the space, available for antennas / repairs but not for general access (no roof deck or hottub)
- no HVAC
- has installed sprinklers, the landlord is going to have them serviced and certified before move-in
- utilities, garbage, etc are responsibility of tenant
- we are welcome to take out the existing dividing walls and build to suit
A search on SF's crime map of the area on Mission St between 16th St and 18th St (but largely not including 16th BART) has 51 incidents over the past 30 days:
6 assaults, 33 narcotics/drugs, 2 larceny/theft, 5 robberies, 3 vandalisms, and 2 vehicle thefts.
(I searched within 500 feet of the intersection of Mission St & 17th St which gave a near-perfect radius encompassing the walk from BART to this address, estimating the additional crime exposure we would have between this place and 83c)
- are property taxes responsibility of owner or of tenant? (is the lease NNN?)
- A copy of the proposed lease is in 83C in one of the membership binders in the kitchen cabinet. From my (Rachel's) reading of it, it's not triple Net; property taxes are not mentioned. We would be required to carry insurance but not, IIRC, against building issues. But we should doublecheck these things.
- is there a water heater?
- is there Comcast in the building?
- Comcast service is available for the building. Matt Petersen mentions no wiring in the MPOE but this can be fixed.
- what kind of ventilation is there for a kitchen, a shop, a photolab, and any other project that would require it?
- the front and rear window walls are easy to ventilate through. There are not vents in the roof and installing them would require a contractor -- not impossible, but a bit expensive. Adi 23:05, 10 July 2009 (PDT)
- how easy will it be to bring bikes in and out?
- Up two flights of stairs to the space, through a doorway. Easy to install bike racks as we choose. Adi 23:05, 10 July 2009 (PDT)
- what are the electric and water bills of the last tenant for a few months? we'll have less electricity use most likely but possibly more water.
- is the space wheelchair accessible?
- There is a freight elevator that goes from the street level to the space. It may or may not be ADA compliant, but as a practical matter it will enable wheelchair users to get upstairs. Adi 20:57, 12 July 2009 (PDT)
- is the elevator locked? Is it the sort of setup where a person who needs the elevator would have to call someone to bring the elevator down and up again from some alleyway? (as is the case at the Jon Sims Center) --Lizzard 16:16, 4 August 2009 (PDT)
- who pays for elevator maintenance?
- The landlords pay for elevator maintenance.
- how high can the lights be moved? (e.g. probably some code restriction from the sprinklers)
Detailed notes
- Floor (Sai Emrys)
- deep gouge next to bathroom; possible water damage / rot
- rat hole in wall next to rear staircase
- large hole and water damage along base of exterior wall next to roof ladder
- many broken kitchen tiles
- wood floors throughout are sagging and uneven; possibly indicates damage to between-beams floor support structure
- water damage on wood floor next to DJ booth
- paper-mache covering base of one of large vertical pipes near roof ladder; possibly covering damage? doesn't seem like a good fix
- roof
- Windows (Christie)
Dirty Shop
This is the western-most built out room, with a size of 24'4" x 16'3".
West Classroom
This is the middle built out room. Dimensions 14'1" x 16'3".
East Classroom
This is the eastern-most built out room. It has no eastern wall, and instead leaves open a passage way (see map). From the west wall to the linoleum is about 15'. It is also 16'3" from its north-south walls.
See Zoning.
Proposed Enhancements
See Build for historical information.


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I thought I could manage to squeeze in sometime to update my blog before we left for a short trip to Malaysia. Alas, I was so tight up with booking the accommodations, drawing up the itinerary, looking up google maps for addresses for places of interest and ploughing through websites and blogs to hunt down famous eating places along our drive up to Penang. I couldn't post this up soon after we were back home as I was busy cleaning up the house and washing and ironing loads after loads of laundry :(
Back to the theme of this post...
So far this is the 'safest', almost fool-proof cake for me to bake and give away.
The ingredients are simple enough...they are items that are easily retrieved from most home bakers' pantries.
The preparation method is almost similar to baking a chiffon cake...the only difference is, this cake is baked using a normal round cake pan.
There is no worry about the cake not rising tall and mighty in the oven, what we really want to achieve is a dense, sunken and cracked cake!
There is no frosting required to decorate the cake. Just a simple light dusting of icing sugar does the trick.
Even though I have not made this cake for ages, I was very satisfied with the result...at least it was something that I wasn't too shy to give away, especially to a fellow home baker.
This time I managed to deliver the cake in one piece :)
It was indeed a delight to hear that my cake friend liked it, and to top if off, this is the exact same cake which brought her to my blog. She was wondering why someone would blog about a cracked and sunken cake (^^''')
After hearing from my friend how the texture of the cake turned out...smooth and soft...just the way it should be, I couldn't resist the temptation and went on to bake another one a few days later. This time it was for my husband when he came home to spend a week with us.
This second cake appeared to crack more than the previous one even though I didn't do anything different. The cake produced a nice dome while baking in the oven. Towards the end of the baking time, it started to sink. Upon cooling, the cake collapsed further forming a very sunken centre and kinked sides.
Classic Chocolate Torte
(make one 18cm cake)
150g dark chocolate
100g unsalted butter
3 egg yolks
20g caster sugar
30g cake flour
15g cocoa powder
3 egg whites
50g caster sugar
icing sugar for dusting
- Preheat oven to 170 degC. Line the bottom of an 18cm round pan (with removable base) with parchment paper. Grease and flour the sides. Separate egg whites from egg yolks when the eggs are still cold from the fridge. (It's easier to separate eggs while they are cold). Sift together flour and cocoa powder, twice, set aside.
- Melt dark chocolate and butter in a bowl over a pan of simmering water (make sure the bowl is able to sit above the water and it should cover the pot so that steam will not get inside the bowl). Remove from heat. Let cool.
- With a manual whisk, whisk egg yolks with 20g of the caster sugar, till the mixture turns pale, becomes thick and creamy. Add in the melted chocolate/butter mixture. Whisk till well mixed. Add in flour mixture and fold gently with a spatula. Set aside.
- In a clean, dry mixing bowl, beat egg whites with a handheld electric mixer on low speed until mixture becomes frothy and foamy. Add half of the sugar amount and turn to high speed and beat the mixture. Continue to add in the remaining sugar and beat until the egg whites reaches the soft peak stage.The soft peak stage is reached when the peaks of the whites curl over and droop slightly. The egg whites should appear smooth and glossy. (Do not over beat the whites still stiff, it is better to beat the whites still soft peaks for easy folding with the yolk batter.)
- Add the egg white to the egg yolk mixture in three addition. Each time, fold in gently with a spatula, making sure all the egg whites are incorporated into the batter. Note that any unmixed egg white lumps may cause holes in the final product.
- Pour batter into the prepared cake pan. Tap the cake pan slightly on tabletop a few times to release any trapped bubbles in the batter. Bake at 170 degC for 30 ~ 35 mins, or until a skewer inserted into the centre comes out with a few moist crumb. The cake surface will start to crack while still in the oven.
- Remove cake from oven, leave it in the pan for about 5mins. Unmould and let cool, right side up (do not invert) on wire rack. The cake is best eaten at room temperature. If stored in fridge, bring the cake to room temperature before serving.


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Dead Witch Walking holds strong at number one, with Dead in the Family moving up to the number two slot. Changes, Book 12 in The Dresden Files series, moves Jim Butcher back into the top 5 list. Rounding out our top 5 this week are Breaking Dawn and a newcomer, Silver Borne.
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- Dead in the Family by Charlaine Harris
- Changes by Jim Butcher
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Here are a few images of built up Camargue frames. These two are being shipped off to Interbike.
|This will be my daily rider
|I love the dropouts
|Crazy bars.
|Here is the 26" version set up for touring. The Pass hunter rack is not a good fit; Campeur or Constructeur racks are the way to go on these frames.
|Note the cable adjuster and proper fender mounts.
|Again, fender mounts and three bottle cages. Those 2.0" smooth Michelin tires are so comfy.


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Richard Posner, the federal judge who threw out the entire Apple v. Motorola patent battle in June, has penned a new blog post complaining about the proliferation of patents. "I am concerned that both patent and copyright protection, though particularly the former, may be excessive," Posner wrote on Sunday.
The problem of excessive patent protection is at present best illustrated by the software industry. This is a progressive, dynamic industry rife with invention. But the conditions that make patent protection essential in the pharmaceutical industry are absent. Nowadays most software innovation is incremental, created by teams of software engineers at modest cost, and also ephemeral—most software inventions are quickly superseded. Software innovation tends to be piecemeal—not entire devices, but components, so that a software device (a cellphone, a tablet, a laptop, etc.) may have tens of thousands, even hundreds of thousands, of separate components (bits of software code or bits of hardware), each one arguably patentable. The result is huge patent thickets, creating rich opportunities for trying to hamstring competitors by suing for infringement—and also for infringing, and then challenging the validity of the patent when the patentee sues you.
On the copyright front, Posner sees two major problems. One is excessive copyright terms and the resulting "orphan works" problem. "Apart from the fact that the present value of income received so far in the future is negligible," he writes, "obtaining copyright licenses on very old works is difficult because not only is the author in all likelihood dead, but his heirs or other owners of the copyright may be difficult or even impossible to identify or find."
Posner also called for broader fair use rights. "The boundaries of fair use are ill defined, and copyright owners try to narrow them as much as possible, insisting for example that even minute excerpts from a film cannot be reproduced without a license." That's a problem, he argues, because "intellectual creativity in fact if not in legend is rarely a matter of creation ex nihilo; it is much more often incremental improvement on existing, often copyrighted, work, so that a narrow interpretation of fair use can have very damaging effects on creativity."
"The need for reform is less acute in copyright than in patent law," Posner concludes, "but it is sufficiently acute to warrant serious attention from Congress and the courts."
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Posner is not a typical judge. While most judges mostly keep their opinions to themselves when they're not on the bench, Posner is a prolific academic and public intellectual. He is regarded as a founder of the law and economics movement, which brings economic analysis to bear on legal doctrines. He has written numerous books, and he shares a blog with fellow University of Chicago scholar (and Nobel prize-winning economist) Gary Becker.
Posner is also something of a loose cannon. Last year, for example, we covered his remarks from the bench that a constitutional right to record the police would lead to "a lot more of this snooping around by reporters and bloggers." The copyright scholar (and sometime Ars contributor) James Grimmelmann called one of Posner's recent opinions in a copyright case "astonishingly slipshod, even by Judge Posner's relaxed standards." He is traditionally regarded as a conservative, but he commented in July that "I've become less conservative since the Republican Party started becoming goofy."
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True to form, Book 9 isn't even out the door yet and already Book 10 is demanding my attention. Good thing I love writing! Speaking of Book 9, SPY HIGH is on schedule to be released this Friday, January 16/15. As usual, it'll be out on Amazon and Smashwords first, followed by all other channels within a week or two. I'll keep you posted!
68 thoughts on "Meanwhile, Inside My Brain…"
Damn, I wish I could write as fast as you. Maybe my books need to take some nagging lessons from yours. *grin* Though my current WIP IS screaming at me pretty loudly right now … I better get to it, so I can reward myself with your #9, which is currently burning a hole in my Kindle.
I think you should definitely give in to your WIP's nagging – I can hardly wait to read Ciel's next adventures! 🙂
Oh my! I just finished #9. It's not too often, ask anyone that know me, that I am speechless. I don't know where to begin. It's a masterpiece would be o.k. I guess, but that doesn't really describe it. Better than the last? Maybe? Of course? But the last one was then better than the one before that, and so on, all the way to the beginning. This one, this one had me going from page one. The suspense was superb. The description of the commune was spot on. How do I know? LOL I am a product of the 60's and spent a wonderful week in Northern Oregon with some "close" friends. Been there, done that. Had my Aura read by experts. Diane, you are a Master of your craft. This had me with a tear in my eye at one point to laughing out loud so long I couldn't focus for a bit, during the "meeting" in Ayden's tent. I am still smiling at the whole story. Kudos, double, triple and if I could nominate you for an award I'd do it in a heart beat.
Thank you so much! I'm pumped to hear I got the commune right. 😉 I had a lot of fun writing this one (but then again, I had fun writing all of them). And I giggled myself silly writing that scene.
I'm so glad you enjoyed it, and thanks again for your kind words!
I so remember what it felt like to sit and kneel on wet moss! The rain and dampness, the smell of mulchy leaves, water seeping into tennis shoes and in my case, sandals. Campfires were rare and basically quickly made and quickly put out. Rangers kept too close a watch on us for just that activity. LOL Oh yeah, reading about the scenery sure brought it all back. We didn't have fancy snacks, just raisins and nuts and whatever else we could scrounge. That's one of the things I love about your books, you do so much homework about your scenes etc. that it just makes it real. While I had fun then I'm glad I had enough sense not to embrace it as a constant way to live. I figured there's still way too many other things to explore. Even now, it's still true. So much more to explore. I have your books in order on my Kindle and am set to read them in order, again. That may take me through till you get #10 done. HA! OH! I'm kinda liking that British guy, MoonJava. I can see possibilities there. Hmmmm? hahaha.
I love to visit the west coast rainforest because it's so different than our dry mountainous climate here, but I don't know if I could live there. I think your one-week sojourn would have been enough for me, too!
And I was thinking there might definitely be possibilities for Orion. I'm not sure what they might be yet, but… hmmm… 😉 I have so many ideas for Book 10 right now I don't know which way I'll end up going!
And there's poor ol' Tom back at the ranch holding down the fort…and holding the bag. 🙂
Not to worry about all the different ways to go. Those are where Books 11 through 50 will come from.
I'm holding out for a movie franchise, but I'd settle for a TV miniseries. Maybe.
No pressure… 🙂
Ah, Diane… you sound like me (or is it that I sound like you?)
I have very similar thoughts, although in my case Book One still hasn't been started… that's doing some serious screaming, I can tell you!
But, I'm sending you all of the energies needed to complete book 9 and start book 10 forthwith and distraction-free!
By the way: Love your cartoon strip once again!
Thank you, Tom! Your energies must have been good – Book 9 is out the door. I'm still in the throes of the release-date paperwork, but I'll be starting Book 10 soon!
In the meantime, I'm sending you the energies to get started on your book! The more you think about it, the more daunting it seems, so my best advice is to just jump in. I can't face a whole book at once, so I just start writing and figure out what's going to happen as I go along. If I begin to feel overwhelmed, I remind myself to just tell the story. The first draft doesn't have to be perfect, so just relax and enjoy writing. Once you start to see words appearing on the page you'll get a big boost! Good luck! 🙂
Your persistent thoughts are very interesting. Mine usually die of loneliness.
Aw, that can't be true! I've read your blog… 🙂
Here it is, the 16th. I'm at my computer, left hand tap, tap, tapping the desk, right hand hovering over the mouse. Amazon keeps wanting to time me out but I REFUSE to be ignored! I just refresh or sign in again. Hubby wants to eat and I holler at him "you know where the fridge is….go for it!" He knows by now that when your books come out I am useless around the house until I have the book and have read it. After 8 books he should know, right?
LOL, it hasn't really gotten quite that bad yet, but it's really, really close.
I can't believe I slept 10 hours straight! That's just never happened.
I'm back to my other tab now and continue my watch at Amazon.
I'm glad you got some sleep – wow, ten hours! You must have been exhausted!
SPY HIGH is up at Smashwords now: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/511119 but still no word from Amazon. Grrr. Soon, I hope!
…and it's live at http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00SC7DO0G! Woohoo! 😀
I GOT IT! WhooHoo! WHEW! (picture large exhale here) :0>>>>>
Oh well, emoticons I've never mastered.
I am so happy right now. Supper over, hubby down for a nap and I……..am starting to read!
I hope you like it! 🙂
And done! Yep, Spy High is another winner! These books really do need to be movies. They really do.
Go ahead, Diane. Take a day or two off…before you start pounding away relentlessly on Book 10.
Go spend the weekend with friends. Eat a good, thick, perfectly done steak finished with a reduced bourbon and butter sauce. With some lightly salted, buttery garlic wedge cut potatoes. Maybe some grilled asparagus with sesame seeds. And a nice salad with fresh raspberries and toasted pecans, of course. And a good Texas beer or two or three.
Or maybe you'd prefer a nice pork chop, say, an inch and a half thick, the size of your hand, finished with a light garlic butter and wine reduction?
Personally, I'm okay either way.
If y'all lived a little closer, I'd be glad to help a sista out. No pressure, though.
You done good, Diane. Thank you for all the hard work. It doesn't go unappreciated. You THO rock, thithter!
Thank you! And oh, YUM!!! Now my tastebuds are whimpering… 😉
Thanks for the good thoughts Diane. We made it through the tests o.k. I guess. I say "we", LOL, but while he had the tests done I had to battle the "guest" bed. Yes, there really is such a thing as torture. I have seen it and experienced it. It didn't break me tho', I stared it down and I won. I had no sleep of course, but I survived it.
Your cartoons are so great. And here I thought I was the Queen of Procrastination! I bow to your superiority in that department. I'm still glad there will be a #10! Soon as I get a little sleep tonight I will be checking continually with Amazon for #9. Ahhhh, it's so cool to know that good things are still waiting for me.
I'm glad you both made it through the tests – I hope you get caught up on your sleep soon! I'm checking Amazon frequently today, too – I put the book up around suppertime last night, but I never know exactly when they're going to get around to releasing it.
Sometimes I get impatient with the whole process, until I remember that only a few decades ago none of this was possible. Ah, progress… 😉
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Congratulations! Hope all goes well.
Thanks, Suzanne! 🙂
Ha ha ha. That is how I often feel and going through.
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You go girl!! Soooooo glad you love to write, because I LOVE to read your books!! I still think Julianne Moore would make a great Ayden Kelly!! Come on Hollywood, give Diane a call!!!!
Thanks, June! But I think if Hollywood called I'd probably figure it was a prank and hang up. Maybe they should email me instead. 😉
No, no! Kathy Griffin! Definitely Kathy Griffin! 🙂
The more I think about it, the more I'm sure the adventures of Aydan and the gang would make a superb movie franchise. Whoever makes those decisions is missing a sure hit. No kidding. This is good stuff here.
Absolutamundo! The James Bond series is over, done, that cookie has been baked to death. The Spy series would be perfect for the big screen. It could be THE next big action series ever! Now THAT would be Oscar material for sure as long as Hollywood didn't butcher it with "their" own touches. Perfect the way they are.
Aw, thanks, you guys! 🙂
To paraphrase Groucho Marx:
"Outside my brain, I see the world;
Inside my brain, it's too dark to see anything."
Inspiration can sometimes be a pest.
I wish you could send some of that enthusiasm my way. Every time I look at my manuscript, I start to get the sweats because I can't seem to get into editing mode. Crap! OK maybe one day soon…or not…
Aw, that sucks! I don't know what your editing process is like, but I know I'd be totally overwhelmed if I had to tackle my whole manuscript all at once. I edit as I go because I can't write new words until I'm happy with what I've got, but when I've finished the whole thing I still go back and edit it over and over.
The only thing that makes it less daunting for me is to concentrate on one thing per pass. For example, on the first couple of passes I'm only checking for continuity and accuracy of details. On the next pass I'm adjusting story arc and character arc. Then I'll concentrate only on dialog tags and making sure my paragraphs are formatted to make it clear who's speaking. On the next pass I'll read for emotion, making sure each scene creates the feelings I want. Then authenticity of dialog to keep the words true to the character; then removing all extraneous details to only tell the reader what they need to know at a particular time; then cleaning up my own particular writing tics (I pull so many commas and instances of "just" and "that" out of each manuscript it's almost funny); and on and on.
Maybe for some people the thought of making that many passes through a manuscript is just as scary as tackling the whole thing at once, but breaking it down into manageable bites is what works for me.
Hang in there, Nelson, you can do it! Just take it a step at a time. 🙂
This is so me this morning. But I vow to make this my last blog comment, after which I'll march right over to Scrivener and open up my WIP. Here I go. Thanks for the inspiration. Bye byyyyyyyyyye…
(Cute cartoon!)
Perfect! I totally get that! Every panel ringth true. You got it bad, thithter! But alwayth remember thith; you THO rock! Can't wait for the thikthteenth! Looking forward to Thpy High!
Well put. Dad always said, "I may grow old, but I'll never grow up!" For all that, I'm pretty sure he wished I would, though. Sorry, Pop, maybe next time. 🙂
My sentiments exactly. I'm for sure getting older but I don't have to think old! I am so happy that #9 is here, almost. I can finally quit fidgeting and getting antsy with worry. I'll be spending the night tonight at the Biloxi VA while hubby goes through yet another set of tests and then the sleep test again. They screwed up the first one. Figures. I will be scanning over the #'s 7 and 8 books to bring me up to speed, salivating for the upcoming #9. AND, happy, happy, Joy, Joy, a #10 in the creative areas that is Diane Henders brain. This is what loving life is all about. LOL
Thanks, Moondance – I hope you enjoy Book 9! I had a lot of fun writing it!
And I'm sending good thoughts to you and your Hubby – here's hoping the tests go well.
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Angina Pectoris
What is angina pectoris?
Angina pectoris (or simply angina) is recurring chest pain or discomfort that happens when some part of the heart does not receive enough blood and oxygen. Angina is a symptom of coronary artery disease (CAD), which occurs when arteries that carry blood to the heart become narrowed and blocked due to atherosclerosis or a blood clot.
What are the symptoms of angina pectoris?
Angina pectoris occurs when the heart muscle (myocardium) does not receive an adequate amount of blood and oxygen needed for a given level of work (insufficient blood supply is called ischemia). The following are the most common symptoms of angina. However, each individual may experience symptoms differently. Symptoms may include:
A pressing, squeezing, or crushing pain, usually in the chest under the breast bone, but may also occur in the upper back, both arms, neck or ear lobes
Pain radiating in the arms, shoulders, jaw, neck, and/or back
Shortness of breath
Weakness and/or fatigue
The chest pain associated with angina usually begins with physical exertion. Other triggers include emotional stress, extreme cold and heat, heavy meals, excessive alcohol consumption, and cigarette smoking. Angina chest pain is usually relieved within a few minutes by resting or by taking prescribed cardiac medications, such as nitroglycerin.
The symptoms of angina pectoris may resemble other medical conditions or problems. Always consult your doctor for more information.
Angina pectoris and heart attack risk
An episode of angina does not indicate that a heart attack is occurring, or that a heart attack is about to occur. Angina does indicate, however, that coronary artery disease is present and that some part of the heart is not receiving an adequate blood supply. Persons with angina have an increased risk of heart attack.
A person who has angina should note the patterns of his or her symptoms--what causes the chest pain, what it feels like, how long episodes usually last, and whether medication relieves the pain. Call for medical assistance if the angina episode symptoms change sharply. This is called unstable angina.
Diagnosing angina pectoris
In addition to a complete medical history and medical exam, a doctor can often diagnose angina pectoris by noting the patient's symptoms and how/when they occur. Certain diagnostic procedures may also determine the severity of the coronary artery disease, and may include:
Electrocardiogram (ECG or EKG). A test that records the electrical activity of the heart, shows abnormal rhythms (arrhythmias or dysrhythmias), and detects heart muscle damage.
Stress test (usually with ECG; also called treadmill or exercise ECG). A test that is given while a patient walks on a treadmill or pedals a stationary bicycle to monitor the heart during exercise. Breathing and blood pressure rates are also monitored. A stress test may be used to detect coronary artery disease, and/or to determine safe levels of exercise following a heart attack or heart surgery.
Cardiac catheterization. With this procedure, X-rays are taken after a contrast agent is injected into an artery to locate the narrowing, occlusions, and other abnormalities of specific arteries.
Treatment of angina pectoris
Specific treatment for angina pectoris will be determined by the doctor based on:
Your age, overall health, and medical history
Extent of the disease
Your tolerance for specific medications, procedures, or therapies
Expectations for the course of the disease
Your opinion or preference
The underlying coronary artery disease that causes angina should be treated by controlling existing risk factors: high blood pressure, cigarette smoking, high blood cholesterol levels, high saturated fat diet, lack of exercise and excess weight.
Medications may be prescribed for people with angina. The most common is nitroglycerin which helps to relieve pain by widening the blood vessels. This allows more blood flow to the heart muscle and decreases the workload of the heart.
Other types of angina pectoris
There are two other forms of angina pectoris, including:
Variant angina pectoris
Microvascular angina


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Are cheap pet medications safe to buy?
Sticker shock is a term more related to buying a car than taking care of a pet, but pet medications can be surprisingly expensive.
Discouraged by rising costs at the vet's office, pet owners have turned to their computers to see if heartworm medication or antibiotics are cheaper online.
But is it safe to buy your pet medications online?
Prices drive options
There are a number of reasons the $7 billion pet medication industry has seen increased prices, according to the Federal Trade Commission, which looked into the issue during a daylong conference in October 2012. New and improved diagnostic and therapeutic treatments are now available, plus owners and vets have placed an increased emphasis on preventative care to control ticks, fleas and heartworm in dogs and cats. The sale of prescription and over-the-counter flea, tick and heartworm products make up more than half of all pet medication expenditures, according to the FTC.
"American consumers spend a tremendous amount of money on medications for their pets every year. High prices on these medications mean that consumers have less money for necessities," said FTC Chairman Jon Leibowitz. "An increasing array of options for consumers to purchase their pet medications has begun to lead, we believe, to lower prices and increased consumer choice, certainly in a few pet medicines. It's important that these medications are safe and effective."
Today pet owners have options on where to purchase their pets medications that were not available in the past, said veterinarian Glenn Buckley, chief executive officer of Pet Rescue Rx.
"Today many big-box retailers and online pharmacies carry pet medications. The benefit of purchasing online is the convenience and the savings for the consumer. … Online pharmacies do not have the overhead costs of running a retail pet supply store, and as a result the prices we offer can be significantly lower," Buckley said.
Founded in June, Pet Rescue Rx is unique in that it donates 100 percent of net profits to animal shelters and rescue groups selected by its customers.
"We are doing this because as a veterinarian and shelter volunteer, I have witnessed firsthand the tremendous job the staff and volunteers do, and they need help," Buckley said.
Check for legitimacy
To save money, discount pet drugs — no prescription required — may appeal to pet owners surfing the Web, but FDA experts say it can be risky to buy drugs online from sites that tout this message.
Some websites that sell pet drugs represent legitimate, reputable pharmacies, said Martine Hartogensis, deputy director of the Office of Surveillance and Compliance in FDA's Center for Veterinary Medicine. But others are fronts for unscrupulous businesses operating against the law. FDA has found companies that sell unapproved pet drugs and counterfeit pet products, make fraudulent claims, dispense prescription drugs without requiring a prescription and sell expired drugs.
Pet owners who purchase drugs from these companies may think they are saving money, but they may be short-changing their pet's health and putting its life at risk, Hartogensis said.
To be sure you're dealing with a legitimate company, "customers should check to see that the pharmacy is located in the United States and has one of the credentials of a safe and secure pharmacy as recognized by the National Association of Boards of Pharmacy. These credentials include LegitScript, Vet-VIPPS and Pharmacy Checker," said Buckley.
Even though the medication is available at the vet's office, pet owners often have a choice where to buy as long as they have a prescription in hand. Many retailers even offer generic medicines for just a few dollars with a vet's prescription.
"In some states a veterinarian is required to give a written prescription if the pet owner asks. The American Veterinary Medical Association believes that is an ethical practice for the veterinarian to provide a prescription if requested, even if state law does not require it," Buckley said.
Most online pharmacies, such as Pet Rescue Rx, function similarly to other online retailers. The customer selects the products for purchase and enters the required information at checkout. Prescription medications require verification from the customer's veterinarian before shipping. The pharmacist will contact the veterinarian for approval and check all instructions for use.


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Major Crimes Creator James Duff Preview "Year-End Blowout"
Used car dealerships have been justly famous for their fast talk and unsophisticated advertising, but their greatest salesmen were once genuine marvels of our culture. Part carnival barker, part magician, part traffic accident: the sincerest practitioners of this art inspired wonder and dark admiration as they daily transformed intelligent people into gullible customers, plopping them (almost without protest) behind the wheels of "one hundred percent guaranteed pre-owned vehicles," and going on to run up the price with a succession of worthless guarantees. Sadly, this marketplace, in which used-car salesmen once bartered with ferocity and cunning, daily diminishes under the pressures of the internet, where customers can go and find the exact car they want, in the exact color, and from the exact year, with an exact price. These dealerships, one successful owner mourns, are becoming less like bazars and more like parking lots, way stations for inventory absent any human connection. The next generation of used car salesmen will have a different character from their predecessors.
And that takes us to the theme we explore in our next episode. What do we learn from our parents, and what do we teach ourselves? Our moms and dads represent the foundation stones of our identity. But what we take from them in crafting our character is more a matter of choice than biology. Manners, for example, can be demonstrated and demanded in the home, taught with intensity and rigor, but how children behave when out on their own, to state the obvious, is beyond a parent's control.
And that's how we begin our own "Year-End Blowout," as a father-and-son car dealership becomes the focus of a bitter family feud and an explosive divorce. While we observe that some parents are better at giving up control than others, we also get a good look at how overconfident teenagers can behave when given the keys to their own lives. Our resident material witness, much like tonight's victim, seems to think he has a firm hand on the wheel of his own destiny; Sharon Raydor is unconvinced as, finally frustrated, she assigns the chore of training Rusty over to former SIS detective, Amy Sykes.
As Major Crimes explores a murder, a bombing and the finer points of accounting, Det. Sykes introduces Rusty to Lt. Cooper, her former section chief from the LAPD's undercover unit. Played by Malcom-Jamal Warner with impressive authority, Lt. Cooper takes one look at Rusty, who he christens with a dismissive nickname, and immediately establishes a set of demanding ground rules that he expects to be followed to the letter.
Can Rusty do as he's told? Or will his role as "Number One" in a police operation (designed to find the person threatening him and his guardian, Captain Raydor), end in a premature disaster? How many drivers will have fatal surprises this evening? All I can say is that a second bomb will detonate, and Det. Amy Sykes will end her day by confronting the limits of what training can accomplish. And please give a kind welcome to an amazing cast of guest stars, led by John Aylward, one America's greatest character actors, Dan Castellaneta, taking a well-earned break from his day job as Homer Simpson, Nic Robuck, artfully straddling the line between pathos and bathos as the "other guy" in a new kind of divorce, Joel Brooks from Six Feet Under and The Facts of Life as one of the drollest lawyers in L.A., and Tom Parker, in a "swashbuckling" turn - especially the buckle part - that makes one wonder how other leading men find work these days.
"More on this matter cannot I report," says the crafty Iago, a manipulator who puts even used-car salesmen to shame, and here I must agree and leave off teasing this week's episode. But it would be rude to drive off without saying that "Year End Blowout" marks the third time David McWhirter has directed a Major Crimes episode this year. DMac, as he is fondly known in our company, has also been the First Assistant Director of every odd numbered episode of The Closer and its happy spinoff, but leaves this year to pursue directing full time. We will see him again and again, I'm sure, as he continues to slip behind the wheel on an episodic basis, but we will miss his energy and good spirit in our day-to-day commute.
And, finally, "Year-End Blowout" marks a great alliance between three amazing writers, Leo Geter and Ralph Gifford & Carson Moore, who exemplify the very best of what we try to do at Major Crimes. This artful trio effectively dramatized our theme in seamless way, weaving all the disparate threads of plot into one well-crafted whole. There is a little moment in a parking garage where one dangerous key fob leads effortlessly to another that, in our little world, counts as sheer genius.
Next week, we meet the individual writing the threatening letters to Rusty and Sharon on behalf of Phillip Stroh, and encounter one of the very worst murderers in the history of either series.
Until then - James Duff
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Dr. James Andrews says he never cleared Robert Griffin III to go back into game after injury
- Washington Redskins quarterback Robert Griffin III suffered a knee injury against the Baltimore Ravens on Dec. 9
- He left for one play, then hobbled back into the game before eventually coming out for good
- Coach Mike Shanahan said he allowed Griffin to re-enter on the OK of Dr. James Andrews, who refutes the story
When Washington Redskins rookie quarterback Robert Griffin III injured his knee on a gruesome collision in the fourth quarter of a 31-28 victory against the Baltimore Ravens on Dec. 9, he limped off the field for one play, then hobbled back into the huddle as fans and teammates held their breath.
Griffin, clearly injured and in pain, remained in the game for four plays before removing himself.
The following day, when the team revealed Griffin had suffered a sprained lateral collateral ligament, coach Mike Shanahan was asked why he had risked the health of his franchise quarterback by putting him back into the game.
Shanahan said he let Griffin return with the blessing of James Andrews, the renowned orthopedic surgeon, who was on the sideline.
Andrews, however, told USA TODAY Sports on Saturday that he never cleared Griffin to go back into the game, because he never even examined him.
"(Griffin) didn't even let us look at him," Andrews said. "He came off the field, walked through the sidelines, circled back through the players and took off back to the field. It wasn't our opinion.
"We didn't even get to touch him or talk to him. Scared the hell out of me."
Yet when asked by news reporters, Shanahan described a conversation with Andrews this way:
"He's on the sidelines with Dr. Andrews. He had a chance to look at him and he said he could go back in," Shanahan said Dec. 10. "(I said) 'Hey, Dr. Andrews, can Robert go back in?'
'Yeah, he can go back in.'
'Robert, go back in.'
"That was it," Shanahan said.
Only that's not the way it happened, Andrews said. What's more, Andrews remains worried about Griffin's health as the Redskins play the Seattle Seahawks in an NFC wild-card game at FedEx Field today.
"I'm the one that shut him down that day, finally," Andrews said. "I've been a nervous wreck letting him come back as quick as he has. He's doing a lot better this week, but he's still recovering and I'm holding my breath because of it.
"He passed all the tests and all the functional things we do, but it's been a trying moment for me, to be honest with you."
After Griffin left the game against the Ravens, backup Kirk Cousins led the Redskins to victory, then started the following week's game — a victory against the Cleveland Browns — when Griffin was inactive.
The risky behavior and apparent cover-up regarding Griffin's knee injury is even more curious when Andrews described the team's responsibility toward the rookie quarterback — "to make sure he's OK for the next 15 years," Andrews said. "That's what you have to watch out for for players, because they don't know."
Andrews added, "He's a competitor. He didn't want to let his team down."
Andrews made the comments while promoting his book, Any Given Monday: Sports Injuries and How to Prevent Them, for Athletes, Parents, and Coaches — Based on My Life in Sports Medicine.
Despite Griffin's insistence otherwise, today he will continue to wear the knee brace he's worn for the past several weeks, Andrews said. The brace has limited Griffin's speed and agility since his return in Week 16.
Shanahan and the team were criticized and fined earlier this season for the handling of another Griffin injury. The team described Griffin III as being "shaken up" immediately after he suffered a concussion in Week 5 against the Atlanta Falcons. The NFL fined the Redskins $20,000 for not properly informing the news media of the injury.


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Easy Recipe: Baked Zucchini Ziti
Easy Recipe: Baked Zucchini Ziti
Time: 45-50 minutes
Makes: 6 servings
8 ounces ziti, uncooked
1 28-ounce can crushed tomatoes, low sodium
1 1/2 t Italian seasoning
1 cup grated zucchini (about 1 medium)
1 cup part-skim ricotta cheese
1 cup shredded part-skim mozzarella, divided
1/2 cup, plus 1 tablespoon grated Parmesan cheese, divided
1 egg, lightly beaten
Salt and pepper
Cooking spray
Cook pasta according to package instructions; drain and set aside.
Preheat oven to 400 degrees F.
In a medium bowl, combine tomatoes and Italian seasoning. In a separate bowl, mix zucchini, ricotta, 1/2 cup mozzarella, 1/2 cup Parmesan and egg. Season with salt and pepper.
Coat a 2-quart casserole dish with cooking spray. Spread half of tomato sauce on bottom. Top with ziti, ricotta mixture and remaining sauce. Sprinkle with remaining 1/2 cup mozzarella and 1 tablespoon Parmesan. Bake until top is brown and sauce is bubbling, 35 to 40 minutes.
-- Family Features
Food quiz
What year did tailgating first take place at a football game?
Answer is at the bottom of the rail.
Wise to the Word: Macerate
To macerate something is to soften it by soaking it in liquid. You usually hear the word used in recipes that include fresh or dried fruit. Macerating fresh fruit releases some of its juices, creating a sweet syrup.
Common liquids for macerating include citrus juice, wine, rum, brandy and balsamic vinegar. A good rule of thumb: one tablespoon of liquid per cup of fruit.
-- CookThink.com
Did You Know?
The 2010 Dietary Guidelines for Americans recommend three daily servings of low-fat or fat-free dairy products every day for people ages nine and older, yet it is estimated that 85 percent of Americans don't meet these recommendations.
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"Cooking for Two 2012" by the Editors at America's Test Kitchen
This popular annual features a collection of our year's best recipes customized to serve two. Fans of this series have come to rely on Cooking for Two for the thrift it promotes, the freshness it delivers, and the small-batch dessert recipes.
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Food Quiz Answer
A. 1869. The first documented sign of tailgating at a sporting event took place at an intercollegiate football game between Princeton and Rutgers in 1869.


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Norah's rag quilt owl! I love it!!! My favourite quilt yet! Can't wait to give it to her for Christmas 🙂
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